Articles tagged with: RCMP
By Faisal Kutty
The long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 is finally out today.
Confirming what many security experts have believed …
By Gerald Caplan
For Montrealer Abousfian Abdelrazik, the nightmare continues. Maybe readers will have forgotten his name already. I’ve written about his ordeal several times and a small dedicated group of his fellow …
By IAN AUSTEN
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Christopher A. Shaw, a middle-class, middle-aged professor of ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia, seems an unlikely target of police interest. But Shaw is also …
From CBC News
Canada’s spy agency is pulling out all the stops to block the release of decades-old intelligence on socialist icon Tommy Douglas.
In an affidavit filed in Federal Court, the Canadian Security Intelligence …
From The Canadian Press
Transport Canada should carry out a sweeping review of its no-fly list, say independent consultants hired by the department who found a Montreal-area student should never have been barred from an Air …
By Tonda MacCharles
OTTAWA –The RCMP has already launched an unprecedented probe of allegations that Canadian government officials turned a blind eye to torture in the past, raising the possibility it could act again on the …
By Ron Atkey
There could not have been a starker contrast between the visions of our security intelligence agency and our national police force, described by Wesley Wark in The Globe and Mail last week (Post-9/11 …
By Noor Javed
They sat through more than 12 hours of lectures. They learned how the Mounties got their name, the perils of cyberspace and the extent of Canada’s underground drug trade.
But for the dozen or …
By Scott Horton
“When the history of this distinguished court is written, today’s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,” writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean and a man widely viewed as the most …
By Jim Bronskill
OTTAWA — A dispute rages over secret portions of an inquiry report on the overseas torture of three Canadians one year after release of the document, which criticizes the actions of security …
From CBC Ottawa
A book that tells the story of Maher Arar and three other Canadians tortured overseas has won the 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award for English non-fiction.
Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians …
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Canada’s spy agency has explicitly told its officers to describe people in “a fair and precise manner” when passing information to other countries – especially ones with …
By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — The Canadian government says it bears no legal responsibility for the detention and torture in Syria of Ottawa’s Abdullah Almalki and will not compensate him for his ordeal.
Almalki, …
By Jim Bronskill
The federal government denies responsibility for the overseas imprisonment and torture of three Canadians, despite a commission of inquiry report that parcelled out blame to CSIS, the RCMP and Foreign Affairs.
In newly filed …
